GRASPING
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- Fotos: Søren Knud Christensen
GRASPING THE FLOOR WITH THE BACK OF MY HEAD
Mute Comp. Physical Theatre.
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS:
- Prize by the Danish Arts Foundation for the concept and staging of the performance.
- Award winner “Best Performace” at The Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre.
- Nominated for the Reumert Prize “Best show” in Denmark.
- Nominated for Best Performance and Best Actress, Dublin Fringe Festival.
LIFE AS A LIVING HELL
Grasping the floor with the back of my head is a tender, humorous, forceful and highly expressive performance about; why man – since the beginning of time – always somehow manage to make his life a living hell.
The show features an international cast from the Faeroe Islands, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland/Ecuador. The music is composed and performed live by VALRAVN, whose inspiration derives from the original Nordic music tradition blending the raw sounds from their ancient instruments with the smooth possibilities of electronic music.
CAST:
CONCEPT OG CHOREOGRAPHY: Mute Comp. Physical Theatre
DANCE AND PERFORMANCE: Kasper Ravnhøj, Jacob Stage, Thomas Bentin, Sigrid Husjord and VALRAVN.
COMPOSER AND LIVE MUSIC: VALRAVN / Martin Seeberg, Anna Katrin Egilstrøð, Juan Humberto Pino and Søren Hammerlund.
STAGE DESIGN: Johan Kølkjær.
LIGHTDESIGN: Michael Breiner.
DRAMATURGE: Anne Hübertz Brekne
Performance trailer: her
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